mohammed was more likely the president of aleppo student union he was kidnapped a few days after his name and photo surfaced on facebook but i believe that my abduction was directly linked to my political activity i received many threats over the phone and eventually they did what they promised. to unwavering in his political allegiances mohammed sas his family had to pay a ransom to free him it included a car a laptop and around ten thousand dollars. what's happening now in syria is that we have some people who participate in peaceful demonstrations and whose demands we support but there are also a lot of those who are trying to take advantage of the current situation to seize people's properties were kidnap them for ransom. while facebook's administration has previously blocked pages that openly supported by charlotte sod it so far failed to do anything to stop the calls for the killing of his supporters and many like the social activist believe that's been long overdue you. can see it as a night we can use it to divert the fruits or to kill and these they cut in me is ultimately a

the incident happened on tuesday not far from the syrian northern city of aleppo near the turkish border the man we're a tour in from iran through turkey and as soon as shortly after they crossed the turkish syrian border. their boss was stalked by gunmen the women from the boss were released while the men were taken hostage as they kidnapped and now freed pilgrims who are shia muslims and this incident happened in syria where the sunni led uprising had been raging for the last fourteen months of course shortly after the news of this kidnapping emerged many have started talking about religious and political reasons behind this kidnapping pointing finger at syrian opposition especially free syrian army although the f.s.a. commanders immediately denied their involvement in this incident came at a movement over deep and rising tension inside lebanon over syria the country and we can see it every day everywhere here in lebanon is literally divided over syria the ruling coalition headed by sheer. hezbollah and sheer news that in communities all over levanon support the regime of president bas

amateur video purportedly shows government troops storming aleppo university late last night. activists said the troops fired live ammunition and tear gas, and arrested some 200 students. in washington, white house spokesman jay carney denounced the violence, and stressed that the cease-fire is not working. >> these kinds of acts which are now routine laid bare this regime's illegitimacy and they underscore the urgent need for a political transition. if the regime's intransigence continues the international community is going to have to admit defeat and work to address the serious threat to peace and stability being perpetrated by the assad regime. >> sreenivasan: syrian forces have stormed the aleppo campus before, but last night's raid was the most violent. egypt's ruling generals vowed again today to transfer power to a civilian administration in the next two months. that assurance came a day after at least 11 people were killed in clashes between apparent military council supporters and a mostly islamist crowd. a senior member of the military council reiterated its promise

>> to syria now, where at least a dozen lebanese men have been kidnapped from the city of aleppo. it has been a worrying development. >> that is right. the hostages are shia muslims, returning from a pilgrimage in iran. the kidnappers are supported to beat -- are supposed to be rebels from the free syrian army. they began blocking nato rose in protest. >> small but acrid fires, and no shortage of tires to burn. the roads of southern beirut were in flames as relatives of the kidnapped men showed their anger. the man, all shia pilgrims, were kidnapped in aleppo in syria, apparently by members of the free syrian army, made up of defectors from bashar al-assad's army. this man is a brother of one of the men taken. he said the women were told to leave and the men were kept as hostages to bargain for the release of their own fighters, held by the regular fighters. the conflict in syria is exposing sectarian tensions in libya. this time, the leader of hezbollah intervened. >> the responsibility lies with the state. we call on everyone to be restrained. we can express our spats in civil a

still to come in the program area of all that's reaching through the ages the ancient city of aleppo largely untouched by the conflict that's tearing syria apart becomes the site of the latest bloody episode between the pro and anti assad sections. and moscow one of the it reserves the right to strike back if nato has planned a missile defense system in europe reaches its security that's still to come this hour. now two of egypt's leading presidential candidates are suspending their campaigning they blame the ruling military council for wednesday's brutal attack on protesters up to twenty people were killed and more than a hundred injured by a known attack is sparking further clashes the rally was supporting a disqualified also a conservative islamist candidate seen as one of the frontrunner as the sole he was banned for his political forces accuse the ruling military for orchestrating the bloodshed sarah furthur looks into the chaos religious tensions that have created in post-revolutionary egypt. taking phone in middle eastern news across this is the leading comic actor as a man an

still to come in the program a revolt that's reaching through the ages the ancient city of aleppo largely untouched by the conflict that's tearing syria apart becomes the site of the latest bloody episode between the pro and anti assad factions. and moscow warns it reserves the right to strike back if nato has planned a missile defense system in europe breaches its security that still to come this hour. now to other news america's chief diplomat is urging china to help rein in tensions over iran and north korea's nuclear activities hillary clinton's in beijing right now and said both the u.s. and china should work together to restrain pyongyang from further provocation and prevent a to run from developing a nuclear weapon clinton's visit comes at an extremely delicate time in their relations beijing accuses the u.s. of meddling in its intent all affairs after the u.s. embassy briefly sheltered a chinese dissident activist it's also irritated over washington's military buildup in the asia pacific in an apparent effort to contain china's growing regional clout dr khan hullin an from the for

contain russia all right still to come in the program a revolt through the ages the ancient city of aleppo largely untouched by the conflict bouts tearing syria apart becomes the site of the latest a bloody the so between the pro and anti assad factions. and moscow warns it reserves the right to strike back if nato is planned missile defense system in europe breaches its security that's still to come this hour. two of egypt's leading presidential candidates are suspending their campaigning they blame the ruling military council for wednesday's brutal attack on protesters up to twenty people were killed and more than one hundred injured by unknown attackers sparking further clashes the rally was supporting a disqualified ultraconservative islamised candidate seen as one of the front runners and before he was banned various political forces accuse the ruling military for orchestrating the bloodshed party's sarah firth looks into the chaos religious tensions have created in post-revolutionary egypt. taking phone in middle east a new sequence this is the leading edge of the man and his should

and elsewhere in the arab world another protest and with blood being spilled the ancient city of aleppo largely untouched by the conflict that's tearing syria apart becomes the site of the latest bloody up a soda between the pro and anti assad factions. can trigger tremors and even poison water supplies but british leaders insist yvel plough on with a controversial method to extract underground camps despite the calls to residence . america's chief diplomat is urging china to help or rein in tensions over iran and north korea's nuclear activities hillary clinton's and beijing right now and said both the u.s. and china should work together to restrain pyongyang from further provocation prevent him from developing a nuclear weapon clinton's visit comes at an extremely delicate time in their relations beijing accuses the u.s. of meddling in its internal affairs after the u.s. embassy briefly sheltered a chinese dissident activist it's also irritated over washington's military build up in the. something chinese experts say is aimed at distracting beijing from its own policy in the region so

calling for more freedom until some start using it as a cover to rob and kill assad worker artsy aleppo syria. syrian pro-government activist m r what carr says the fact that the un is acknowledging the opposition's role in the violence is a positive step. clearly making a sort of progress aren't we last time around i checked there was no vision at all neither of the armed groups nor of their atrocities and this happened when the un general assembly was voting on syria and they got a vote with a majority of one hundred thirty seven countries so had some of those atrocities been mentioned probably that wouldn't have been the result let alone having that sort of a majority but we're getting there fourteen months down the line there are policy to go there on groups that there's only groups are committing atrocities there is a bit of suspicion with regard to the real objectives of such organizations you know the human rights commission or the i missed international who today accused the un of being not fit for purpose for failing to have a decisive action with regards to syria now the un ha

only yesterday of course syrian rebels attacked and killed more than a dozen government troops in aleppo is what we saw there and what we're seeing today related. well we're not sure actually i can tell you that it's very difficult to get accurate information from from syria at this time the situation is very chaotic and the tension is rising and this comes as a as a shock because with the with the presence of the monitors according to the coffee and plan of the violence had decreased a bit and they have been. setback in the in the level of tension however today detention is a rising again they have been some clashes as we can see. in the images that you're showing the students in a leper university when it took to the streets and there were some violent clashes now it's not very clear who is who started the violence who actually used weapons who shot at them who they were they armed some of them or so are they were not this would require more a closer look by independent journalists and by independent monitors and that's not that's not their monitors are you know there are only thirty o

elsewhere in the arab world another protest and with the blood being spilled in city of aleppo largely untouched by the conflict that's tearing surreal part becomes the site of the latest bloody episode between the pro and anti the solid factions. all right let me bring you some news that we're just getting here at our two powerful twin blasts have ripped through the city of march call law in russia's north caucasus region the bombs exploded near a police building within twenty minutes of each other one device was placed inside a car the blasts were reportedly carried out by suicide bombers police say there are casualties but the exact number is not yet clear and of course we will update you on this developing story as soon as we get more details. america's chief diplomat is urging china to help rein in tensions over iran and north korea's nuclear activities hillary clinton's in beijing right now and said both the u.s. and china should work together to restrain pyongyang from further provocation and prevent iran from developing a nuclear weapon clinton's visit comes at an extremely del

calling for more freedom until some start using it as a cover to rob and kill a club or car to see aleppo syria. early results from egypt's presidential elections suggest the muslim brotherhood candidate is in the lead and that they'll be a runoff vote next month running against their side could be former prime minister and shafique that's according to the brotherhood's own estimates more than half of the votes have been counted so far doesn't contenders are hoping to replace me back who was forced out by the conference of lucian fifteen months ago meanwhile the actual powers of the president happen yet to be defined by the country's interim constitution. based journalist and i phones in the news that's creating a potential conflict of her in egypt. when we call before the. constitution should be furthest. most of egyptians have voted for that we have to get elected parliament first and then we can derive the constitution but currently most of the people say if we have a president who. would have a constitutional responsibility clear the. constitutional responsibilities that can make a co

and a parent protest against president assad of syria's aleppo university bloody end today leaving four dead and two hundred arrested and verified video from the clashes show troops and students together at tackling the demonstrators let's talk about this with shelby's a senior columnist at the newspaper in neighboring lebanon mr shelby thanks for taking the time to be with us only yesterday of course syrian rebels attacked and killed more than a dozen government troops in aleppo is what we saw then what we're seeing today related. well we're not sure i could tell you that it's very difficult to get accurate information from from syria at this time the situation is very chaotic and the tension is rising and this comes as a as a shock because with the with the presence of the monitors according to the kofi annan plan the violence had decreased a bit and there have been. a setback in the in the level of tension however today detention is rising again there have been some clashes as we can see. in the images that you're showing and the students in a local university when it took to the str

still to come in the program a revolt or that's reaching out through the ages the ancient city of aleppo a largely untouched by the conflict that's tearing syria apart becomes the site of the latest bloody episode between the pro and anti assad factions. two of egypt's leading presidential candidates are suspending their campaigning they blame the ruling military council for wednesday's brutal attack on protesters up to twenty people were killed and more than one hundred injured by unknown attackers sparking for a clash it's a rally was supporting a disqualified ultra conservative islamist candidate seen as one of the frontrunners before he was banned various political forces accuse the ruling military for orchestrating the bloodshed sarah furthur looks into the chaos religious tensions have created in post-revolutionary egypt. taking phone in middle east and. this is the leading comic actor as a man and his shit to recruit film believe is just one of a number in which he's still heard that if you learned as an imprisoned offending islam it's a ruling that's in raging with the public ok'

calling for more freedom until some start using it as a cover to rob and kill assad worker artsy aleppo syria. their national relations expert lou rockwell says in spite of all the talk about establishing peace regime change is the real goal being pursued by the west. all this trouble and serious been stirred up by the u.s. by its allies israel and britain france and so forth to overthrow the syrian regime to cause trouble to get rid of the last secular arab regime bring in al-qaeda the us is on the son of al qaeda in syria just as it was in that all those years ago in afghanistan against the russians and that's causing trouble so the un finally has to admit a little bit that the people it's associated with that is the us and its and its allies are causing this trouble they still claim the government is the real problem i'm no fan of the assad government or any government but this all started these deaths or the vast majority of these deaths are the fault of the us government when they break up syria look at the stronger syria just as they've destroyed iraq just like they're trying to d

calling for more freedom till some start using it as a cover to rob and kill a club or car to see aleppo syria. the first round of egypt's historic presidential election is now over with counting expected to continue over the. weekend a dozen candidates to replace barack was forced out in the revolution fifteen months ago front runners are islamists and former regime officials the muslim brotherhood has already announced its contender is leading in the polls if no candidate wins more than fifty percent of the vote another round it's not the actual sounds of the president yet to be defined by countries institution based journalist using. attention to it. when we call the. constitution should be first. most of egyptians have voted for that we have to get elected parliament first and then we can drive the constitution but currently most of the people say if we have a president who. would have a constitutional responsibility clear the. constitutional responsibilities that can make a conflict between different political factions and between the parliament and the new president since both of t

americans have said very plainly that they believe some of the earlier bombings that took place in aleppo and damascus where the works of groups that were coming from. the provinces in iraq which is associated with al qaeda type of radical sunni islam and i think people will be looking very closely in this case neither at the ordinary opposition nor at the syrian government that's most unlikely but rather at the front from the organization which has claimed responsibility for both the bombings in aleppo and damascus both in march and earlier and this group has a profile the way it speaks the language all of that has a ring of. the fact they don't call it syria per se but. syria their refusal to accept the idea of boundaries all of these things tend to tie it into that type of thinking that was from iraq and no one has actually claimed it formally yet but it seems very likely it will have come from the nostra front while it might seem easy to some to quickly say all terrorists or involved or more specifically al qaida is involved at the very beginning in libya before nato got directly in o

i spoke to many armenians in aleppo.ember armenian massacres as the first world war and do now to see armenian troops, nor to the kurds of northeast syria want to see the turks because the turkish record of treatment of kurds is appalling. >> "democracy now!" spoke to karam nachar, a cyber activist. he has advocated for international intervention. >> i realize liberals around the world in particular are very wary of the replication of the iraq scenario. i think the world should know this is not iraq, but a society that has been mobilizing against the regime for the past year. there is a humanitarian disaster unfolding on the ground. there is a moral responsibility to protect the syrian people. this is not a perfect situation. it is complicated. it will require a lot of money and courage and involvement on the part of the international community. a >> charles glass, your comment on what karam nachar had to say? >> he has every right to call for help from any corner he can because people are being killed in syria. but thos

. >> and syria, and large explosion has been reported in aleppo. it came hours after syrian state television reported that the army had foiled an attempted suicide bombing on the same city. members of the syrian opposition appeared divided over whether al qaeda was involved in bombings in damascus which killed 55 people. the lithuanian president has visited the former ukrainian prime minister two days after she ended her under strike. the president said that he warned the ukrainian president that he was courting isolation by the eu 3 the treatment of the former prime and mr.. -- through the treatment of the former prime minister. a relative of one of anders victims through a shoe at him. >> it has been a very thematic day and tension has been building all week as they heard gut-wrenching evidence about the victims, about what they were like as people, what their hopes and dreams were, and how they died. throughout the trial, proceedings had been very calm and dignified. today, the testimony got to be too much. a police officer in charge of security

have been reports of mass demonstrations against president assad's government in the syrian city of aleppo. this is the second day of protests. these pictures are from thursday. eyewitnesses say that tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets. if that is true, it is the biggest single show of discontent since the u.n.-backed peace plan was due to come into effect last month. what will happen and afghanistan after the departure of foreign troops? that is the main question facing native leaders as they plan to meet in chicago over the weekend. -- that is the main question facing nato leaders. we reported from a region in afghanistan that was controlled by the taliban and reflect on the region's future. >> a moment of calm on a city on edge. on the surface, life looks like it is getting better. regular cricket matches now attract sellout crowds. in the city center, now under afghan control, signs of a boom. i hitched a ride in one of the rickshaws, the city i last visited seven years ago. i discovered that this is still a place of mixed fortunes. rehearsals at the city's only movie

people who oppose the regime you fit into this the big protests that we've seen happening in aleppo university students small villages unarmed civilian people well if you know of. from the very beginning there were some you know demonstrators who wanted some legitimate demands of the government yes yes these their demands are rightful legitimate under started to do something then they started saying that it is peaceful demonstrations but that as a matter of fact it was not. under the government and also it is starting to say these are not peaceful they are provoking they are killing the people they are kidnapping and nobody believed under way in the government started. the truce or started to be revealed it's only recently they said yes there are armed groups. now as they said and that only recently now they said there are terrorist groups they are two of us are groups where do you think the final responsibility for what is happening in syria right now life he should take responsibility the final responsibility not you. i'm sure that's me but i would ask i will answer this in two where is ther

large explosion has been reported outside of the local headquarters of the ruling baath party in aleppo. it came hours after syrian state television reported that the army had foiled at attack in the city. members of the opposition appeared divided over whether al qaeda was involved in the bombings in damascus which killed at least 55 people. the lithuanians president has visited tymenshenko in the hospital. she said that she met the president in a subsequent meeting and he was courting isolation through his treatment of the former prime the mr.. 125 kilos of heroin disguised as an ins had been seized by the authorities in pakistan. they were found during a routine inspection. the heroin would have been worth millions of dollars on the international market. two people have been arrested. the party that has ruled algeria for 50 years has won a big majority in parliamentary elections. the national liberation front won almost half of the seats with the prime minister's party coming second. the islamist coalition performed worse than expected. >> it was an election that has been billed as a

have foiled an attempted suicide car bombing car1200 kilograms of explosives in the northern city of aleppoe would-be bomber was killed in syria's largest city which has seen clashes between pro and anti-government militias. >> twin bombings in damascus yesterday left more than 50 people dead. the government blames the foreign-supported opposition groups, in charge denied by the anti-assad coalition. in damascus this friday, people have been taking stock of the attack. >> a day after the carnage, clean up work has begun and people are grappling with what has happened in their midst. around a ton of explosives devastated buildings even hundreds of meters away. people living in the neighborhood have been left bitter and scared. >> look at this. it says it all. our livelihoods, our old lives and a security dog. it is is a tragedy. >> western intelligence agencies are not ruling out the possibility that al qaeda was involved in the attack. but some syrian opposition groups offer a different explanation. >> in an online video, a commander of the free syrian army blamed president assad and his ga